Arts and Leisure Desk

"The Motorcycle Diaries'' follows a South American road trip in 1952 by the youthful Ernesto (Che) Guevara and his best friend, Alberto Granado, on a battered old motorcycle nicknamed the Mighty One. The eight-month journey carries them 8,000 miles over spectacular landscapes, from Buenos Aires to Chile, Peru and Venezuela, with stops in Cuzco and Machu Picchu.

September 12, 2004moviesNews

Foreign Desk

Che Guevara is widely remembered today as a revolutionary figure; to some a heroic, Christ-like martyr, to others the embodiment of a failed ideology. To still others, he is just a commercialized emblem on a T-shirt. But for Latin Americans just now coming of age, yet another image of Che is starting to emerge: the romantic and tragic young adventurer who has as much in common with Jack Kerouac or James Dean as with Fidel Castro.

May 26, 2004moviesNews

Book Review Desk

Recounting the almost farcical story of how a group of Cuban fighters set off to save Congo's revolution, only to need saving themselves, a lesser individual would have been tempted to airbrush his memories. Not so Che Guevara. ''This is the history of a failure'' is the frank opening line of ''The African Dream.''

November 11, 2001artsReview

The Arts/Cultural Desk

It might be hard, and perhaps a bit painful, for the aging members of the 1960's generation to come to grips with an awful fact: that almost half of America was born after the martyrlike death of Che Guevara in 1967.

November 26, 1997artsNews

Foreign Desk

After 30 years of mystery and intrigue, the remains of Che Guevara, the doctor-turned-guerrilla who inspired a generation of would-be revolutionaries around the world, were laid to rest today in this elegantly faded provincial capital where he achieved the military victory that first established his reputation. As his comrade in arms Fidel Castro looked on, the coffin containing the skeleton of the ''heroic warrior'' was interred in a mausoleum at the base of a giant statue of Guevara, rifle in hand.